August 03, 2010 at 10:50 AM MST
Today, Senators McCain and Coburn released a new oversight report: “Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues.” The report, a third in a series, highlights questionable stimulus projects that are wasteful, mismanaged, and overall unsuccessful in creating jobs.
Today, Senators McCain and Coburn released a new oversight report: “Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues.” The report, a third in a series, highlights questionable stimulus projects that are wasteful, mismanaged, and overall unsuccessful in creating jobs.
Examples of wasteful projects include:
- $762,372 to create “Dance Draw”
interactive dance software
- $1.9 million for international ant research
- $1.8 million for a road project that is threatening a pastor’s home- $308 million for a joint clean energy venture with…BP
- $89,298 to replace a new sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, OK
- $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policy makers
- $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music
- $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to
inequity
- $193,956 to study voter perceptions of the economic stimulus- $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
- $456,663 to study the circulation of Neptune’s atmosphere
